It’s the halfway point of what we on staff have affectionally termed “Late October Madness,” with Apple this past Tuesday and Google / Windows Phone this upcoming Monday. Thursday was all about Microsoft: the company held two events to celebrate the launch of Windows 8 and the new Surface tablet. …

” A retired New Hampshire doctor and school board member has caused an uproar with his proposed ban on high school football, saying the game is too dangerous for underage students. High school football is an American institution, so when Dr. Paul Butler advanced what many people believe is a …

Republicans on reproductive rights. [Richard Mourdock] “Life is a gift from god, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape” [Mitt Romney] “I’m supporting Richard Mourdock for Senate” They want all abortions to be illegal. If one of these convicted rapists rapes again, and gets a woman pregnant, …

“A man who may be a person of interest in a Long Beach Molotov cocktail attack that left a man critically burned last week was being questioned by authorities Tuesday night, a law enforcement official told The Times. The official stressed that authorities were not sure whether the man was …

“A gay man says he was physically and verbally abused by members of his North Carolina church while being detained for several months in a church dormitory. Michael Lowry, 22, told ABC News that he was approached by a leader from the Word of Faith Fellowship Church, who asked him …

South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are being sued over their Lollipop King character from their Imaginationland trilogy. Is the Lollipop Forest creator just bitter? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down with Pop Trigger host Samantha Schacher. Watch Pop Trigger’s take: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxTnFTWxpX8 Subscribe to Pop …

“A little girl wearing a black-and-white Halloween costume was mistaken for a skunk and shot by a relative at a party, police in Pennsylvania said. The 9-year-old was hit in the shoulder but was alert and talking as she was taken to a hospital in Pittsburgh after the incident Saturday …

“An assistant manager at an Arby’s, who slipped out of a drive-thru window to get away from an armed robber who invaded the store early Friday, has been fired. Mary Archer learned of her fate less than 24 hours after a man with a knife slipped into the business, 1130 …

“Although there is very little data regarding this phenomenon, activists and lawyers who work with transgender sex workers say that the thriving sex trade in the Middle East, especially in Gulf countries such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, and Bahrain, is attracting hundreds of transgender sex workers, mostly …

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